Following previously posted links, I was blessed (or fortunate) to encounter this:
Amy Coney Barrett Is Not a Safe Pick for the Supreme Court.
Her writings on faith and jurisprudence should worry conservatives.
By John Zmirak on September 19, 2019
[....] Why then should conservatives, even Catholics, be concerned about a justice letting his or her faith influence his or her jurisprudence? The answer is simple: Pope Francis sits on the throne. Francis has used his position to promote a wide array of leftist political and theological stances that conflict with his predecessors’ teachings. These include capital punishment, which goes back to the Covenant of Noah in scripture, and was on the books of the Vatican City state into the late 1960s. Francis has recently unilaterally declared capital punishment forever “inadmissible,” whatever that means. In fact, Francis has gone further and claimed that life imprisonment is also evil. Still more urgent is immigration. On this subject, Francis defies the Church’s own Catechism, which clearly states that the common good of receiving countries must be weighed against the desires of newcomers to better their lives, and that immigrants must obey immigration laws, or lose their right to enter. Instead, Francis routinely denounces every effort to enforce any democratically enacted immigration law. [....] Some Catholics have rightly defied Francis, noting that he has no authority to change long-settled teachings, or impose specific politics on Catholics. But too many pious Catholics seem conflicted, and feel obliged to adapt their long-held beliefs to suit the current inhabitant of the Vatican--as if he were some kind of oracle. [....]
It is the duty of a judge to implement the U.S. Constitution, not the teachings of the Catholic Church—or, worse, the political preferences of a pope who has decided unilaterally to change those teachings. [....] It is clear what Judge Barrett believes about the obligations of a Catholic judge when there is a direct conflict between her views of what the Church teaches and the U.S. Constitution dictates: they must recuse themselves. [....] I hope Republican senators are willing to demand answers from her. If she does not renounce the weirdly theocratic version of a Catholic judge’s constitutional obligations that she has offered, she deserves rejection by the Senate. [....] [×]
Zmirak points out that for the 2 key issues above (and others), the
U.S. Conference of "Catholic" Bishops (USCCB) quite publicly aligns itself with the "
leftist political" positions publicly promoted by "Francis" Bergoglio. Continuing:
[....] Virtually every effort by the Trump administration to enforce U.S. law regulating immigration has been denounced by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which [...] derives much of its income from federal non-profit contracts, mostly to serve immigrants. Pope Francis has spoken clearly and forcefully against virtually all immigration restrictions, anywhere. On his visit to the U.S. he specifically condemned then-candidate Trump’s campaign to build a wall on the southern border. [....] [×]
This article dates to the period when Justice Ruth Buzzy Ginsberg was about to begin the last year of her life, and Pres. Trump was considering candidates for an already empty Supreme Court seat, but would soon choose Judge Kavanaugh instead.
I suppose that Zmirak, who describes himself as "a convinced and apostolic Catholic", having written the book
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism [⎈], is a
Novus Ordoïte. But he's attentive enough to recognize that there is a "shifting political and doctrinal line at Pope Francis' Vatican". And that some "Catholics" indulge Francis with
papolatry (altho' he doesn't use the term in the article).
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https://humanevents.com/2019/09/19/amy-coney-barrett-is-not-a-safe-pick-for-the-supreme-court/>.
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